Archive: 09/07/2007
Researchers discover how human body fights off African parasite
Trypanosoma are a nasty class of single-celled parasites that cause serious, even fatal, diseases in human and animals. Two species cause sleeping sickness, a disease that threatens all of sub–Saharan Africa. There’s a catch ...
Biology /
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Virological evidence cannot prove transmission in HIV criminal cases
Virological evidence cannot prove transmission in HIV criminal cases, warn experts in this week’s BMJ. Viral phylogenetics provides a way of assessing the relations between viruses from different people. It allows us to estimate ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 07, 2007 |
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A balanced memory network
Ever wonder how much information we put in our heads? The answer: a lot. For starters, a typical vocabulary is 50,000-250,000 words. And then there are all the little details that stretch back decades – the house we grew ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 07, 2007 |
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